Non RPM software upgrades

[Cyber Source]

That depends whether the install routine for the upgrade was written to
install to the install location of the previous install. If you have a
compile routine, read the README or INSTALL file. If you have an rpm,
you can "less" the rpm and see where it will put the files.
As far as your install goes, RedHat does not add other operating systems
automatically to your fstab file but will add it to your boot loader,
lilo or grub. As far as other removable media goes, like cdrom's and
floppies, even zip drives, the correct mount points are probably already
in your fstab file, so by just right clicking on a blank area of your
desktop (gnome), you will see a shortcut for disks, then select which
one, be it floppy, cd, whatever. Make sure you have something in the
drives first. It will then put a shortcut to that drive on the desktop,
when your done, right click on the icon and say eject, even for
floppies, although you still have to push the button to get it out, it
will finish writing to the device that way prior to unmounting, that is
very important because when you copy stuff to your floppy, it may not
write it immediately. You should come to the meeting on Sunday and bring
the box, it will be well worth it to you and I can show you tons of
stuff to get that RedHat 9 box rockin.
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 19:44, David Mangani wrote:

> Thanks for the information and the quick reply. I'm learning all the time. The 
> problem I had with the HDD was that I assumed during installation that 
> information was picked up, just as the CD, floppy etc were picked up. I 
> didn't have to manually create those mount points. Still, as always, 
> learning. 
> 	Would upgrading software loaded this way simply overwrite the older version, 
> or should you delete the older version first?
> 
> Thanks again
> Dave
> 
> On Wednesday 16 July 2003 06:55 pm, Cyber Source wrote
> > uninstalling a compiled program is as simple as deleting the directory
> > where it is. In Linux you always have to have a mount point for data,
> > whether it be floppy, cd, hdd whatever
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 17:28, David Mangani wrote:
> > > 	I installed Netscape 7 from CD ( I had laying around from windows and
> > > noticed it had a linux version as well ). It was not in rpm format, I
> > > think it was ./instal and then an installation wizard pretty much did the
> > > rest. How would I now either remove this program or upgrade it to a newer
> > > version since it wasn't installed with RPM. Is it very difficult to do?
> > >
> > > 	Secondly, I have been struggling to get RH9 to see my windows drive. (
> > > It is on its own HDD ) I tried mounting it manually, edited the fstab
> > > file, tried all different options, filesystem types vfat,dos,etc. NOTHING
> > > worked. Kept getting no mount point defined. Anyways, googled mount point
> > > found my answer in like 2 seconds ugggggg. All I had to do was mkdir
> > > /win-c to match the entry I made in fstab. I have several books on RH and
> > > nowhere was there a mention of having do mkdir to gain access to windows
> > > or anyother file/system to be mounted. I guess sometimes the best lessons
> > > are the ones we learn from missing obvious things.
> > >
> > > Dave.

-- 
Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.nflug.org/pipermail/nflug/attachments/20030717/b5bc7946/attachment-0001.html